The Day The World Went Away Chords & Tabs

The Day The World Went Away Tab

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T1: Ryan, liddellr@hotmail.com, Nine Inch Nails, The Day the World Went
Away, 21/9/99
S1: I checked every site for this tab but couldnt find it so i did it
myself.
Thanks, Song: The Day the World Went Away
Artist: Nine Inch Nails
Album: The Day the World Went Away EP/The Fragile(?)
INTRO (quiet then at 0:29 it goes hard with long downstrokes:)
C#5B5E5F#5
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11--|
D|--11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11--|
A|--11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7---9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--|
E|--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9---7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--------------------------------------------|
(On the third time through the above riff (0:59), another guitar comes in
and plays this:)
E|--------------------|
B|--------------------|
G|---9---6---8---4----| (x 8)
D|--------------------|
A|--------------------|
E|--------------------|
VERSE
(The bass plays this very quietly with long downstrokes during the verse)
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G|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--|
E|---9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7----------------------------------|
I'd listen to the words he'd say
But in his voice I heard decay
The plastic face forced to portray
All the insides left cold and gray
There is a place that still remains
It eats the fear it eats the pain
The sweetest price you'll have to pay
The day the whole world went away
(Around (1:58) a mandolin (or something like that) comes in and plays
something that sounds
like:)
E|--------------------------|
B|---7---5--5--6--6--7--7---|
G|---8---6--6--7--7--8--8---| (this is played a number of times. Listen
to the CD for the
D|---9---7--7--8--8--9--9---| exact arrangement)
A|--------------------------|
E|--------------------------|
OUTRO
(The long downstrokes of C#5, B5, E5 and F#5 are played again along
with:)
E|----------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------|
G|---4---6--4---9------9--9--8--9---| (I know this part actually is sung
by voices (na na),
D|----------------------------------| but I'm sure a guitar plays along
with them)
A|----------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------|
Tabbed by Ryan Liddell